Petitions

This is the code base for the UK Government's petitions service (https://petition.parliament.uk). We have open sourced the code for you to use under the terms of licence contained in this repository.

We hope you enjoy it!

A few things to know:

• You will need ruby 2.2.2
• You will need PostgreSQL and Memcached

Setting your development environment

• clone the repo to your local machine
• install postgres. Easiest with homebrew using $ brew install postgres
  • If you like you can add postgres to your LaunchAgent. Follow instructions at end of console output
• Set up your dev and test databases
  • $ psql postgres
  • # CREATE DATABASE epets_development;
  • # CREATE DATABASE epets_test;
  • # GRANT all privileges ON database epets_development TO epets;
  • # GRANT all privileges ON database epets_test TO epets;
  • # ALTER USER epets WITH PASSWORD 'replace_me';
  • # \q to quit
• You will need to set up the config/database.yml. Copy what is in config/database.example.yml and add the password you used earlier for the epets postgres user
• $ rake db:structure:load - load the sql structure into your new databases
• $ rails s - boot the app

Auxiliary

• If you want jobs (like emails) to be run, use $ rake jobs:work
• For setting up a sysadmin user
  • rake epets:add_sysadmin_user - to set up an admin user with email 'admin@example.com' and password 'Letmein1!'
  • go to /admin and log in. You will be asked to change your password. Remember, the password must contain a mix of upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters.